Angelo Chidi Unegbu

Angelo Chidi Unegbu

MUMMY, I WANT TO BE WHITE

MUMMY, I WANT TO BE WHITE

“Mummy, I want to be white”. This was the plea of a 4-year old child of Igbo parents living in Europe to the mother some years ago. “Black skin is ugly. White is beautiful. I want to have a white…

EVOLUTION OF HUMAN SKIN COLOUR

EVOLUTION OF HUMAN SKIN COLOUR

The last generation of humans with fur [hairs] are said to have had light-colored covered with black hairs, similar to that of their relatives, the chimpanzees. As they lost their body hair to adapt to the sunny environment of Africa,…

PRAYERS AND HUMAN AGENTS

PRAYERS AND HUMAN AGENTS

When you ask God for daily “bread,” remember that you are asking him for a human product because bread cannot be produced without human beings. When you ask him for a job, remember that the enabling environment that would create…

END OF SLĀVERY: HAS IT ENDED?

END OF SLĀVERY: HAS IT ENDED?

On this day, 18th December 1865, slāvery was abolished in the Unīted Stātes of Amèrica. 20 years later, the same Oyibo decided to enslāve an entire continent at the Bęrlin conference (1884/1885). When the people began to shout, they came…

WE ARE TRIBAL PEOPLE

WE ARE TRIBAL PEOPLE

In Africa we are tribal people. Being tribal does not in any way mean being tribalistic. It simply means that we are a people conscious of our tribal belongingness because that is where we are at home. This also does…

RESOURCE CONTROL

RESOURCE CONTROL

Those owning oil wells and some international firms and their enablers enjoying cheap, free, or st0len oil and other mineral resources in Nigeria are the reason why resource control cannot be allowed to work anytime soon. Can you just imagine…